Random Articles

• Dave Winer on Ad-proaching a Singularity “When they finish the process of better and better targeted advertising, that’s when the whole idea of advertising will go poof, will disappear. If it’s perfectly targeted, it isn’t advertising, it’s information.” (I said a similar thing a couple months back.)
• Ad Standards for Newspapers? “Several wondered if the ad met the Star Tribune’s standards for acceptable advertising or if it was a mistake.” - Kate Parry, Star Tribune’s ombudsman Here’s our panel’s reaction to the issue: Snarky Garrick: “Until readers directly provide the Strib with enough revenue that advertising isn’t needed, their complaints should go in the recycling bin with the
• Notes from Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 Talk at Macalester Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 presentation on Monday night felt like the opposite of the Blind Men and the Elephant. He’s just one of the many people from different angles, proclaiming that Advertising is dying and it’ll kill media as we know it. “That horrible crashing sound you hear is a gravy train derailing.” - Jeff
• Who Buys Lunch in a Draw? Today, Aaron Abramson and I enjoyed a very heated lunch conversation on the strengths and weaknesses ad-subsidized wifi networks. No conversions, definitely an agree-to-disagree situation. The work he’s doing with the wifi guys sounded so similar to the work I did years back (see paragraph 6) I had deja vu. Thankfully, he didn’t mention anything
• Quoted in APM’s ‘The Pork Wars on YouTube’ As part of APM’s Public Insight Journalism program, I was interviewed as about the use of sites like YouTube for political issues (vs. campaigns) - specifically in the context of the recent tennis match between animal rights groups vs farm industry groups. Here’s the bit of my interview they used on-air and online. “Garrick Van Buren is